In a surprise announcement, The Tides restaurant, a longtime favorite fine dining spot for island residents, has scrapped plans to relocate to a new South Beach location. Instead, the restaurant will close for a couple of months in late summer for an “aesthetic refresh” and reopen in its current location on Cardinal Drive in the fall.
According to the principals involved, the decision had everything to do with “emotion” and little to do with financial considerations.
“I own both properties, and the closer we came to moving time, the more I came to realize that it’s not all about making money,” said Anthony DeChellis, a longtime Vero Beach resident and the retired CEO of Credit Suisse Private Banking in New York City. “Sometimes it’s about listening to the community and what it is telling you.”…